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mediaphage posted:iawtp blackberry was fine if you had one through work and it was someone else's problem to worry about bes/bas and the heaps of background infrastructure it needed to be able to do anything. when the carriers started offering their own bby services it was broken as poo poo and barely functioned and involved given them your account passwords if you wanted email or whatever it was real bad in a technical sense
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infernal machines posted:blackberry was fine if you had one through work and it was someone else's problem to worry about bes/bas and the heaps of background infrastructure it needed to be able to do anything. when the carriers started offering their own bby services it was broken as poo poo and barely functioned and involved given them your account passwords if you wanted email or whatever yup
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mediaphage posted:iawtp yeeeep. it was a fun device for a specific subset of a specific market willing to monkey with their device. at least it wasn't a phone, so i couldn't make my primary communications device unusable Agile Vector fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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I don't even know if this is the place to ask this but do refurbished ipads air make for good e-readers? I am looking for something which I can use to browse archive.org and read some old issues of Computer Touching Monthly in color There is a surprising lot of ipad airs in quite affordable prices, with batteries at 60-80% capacity (lol) and maybe it's a good usage case for those? I have no idea what is the half-life of idevices
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laserghost posted:I don't even know if this is the place to ask this but do refurbished ipads air make for good e-readers? I am looking for something which I can use to browse archive.org and read some old issues of Computer Touching Monthly in color depends on the refurb (apples are indistinguishable from new but more expensive) and the generation. but generally speaking your use case would work well. one thing to keep an eye out for is that the batteries can fail non linearly so that you could end up with something that drops really quick. if you don’t mind keeping it plugged in a lot in those situations though it won’t matter
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laserghost posted:I don't even know if this is the place to ask this but do refurbished ipads air make for good e-readers? I am looking for something which I can use to browse archive.org and read some old issues of Computer Touching Monthly in color I wouldn't get anything older than an Air3. Maybe an Air2 if it's really cheap.
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laserghost posted:I don't even know if this is the place to ask this but do refurbished ipads air make for good e-readers? I am looking for something which I can use to browse archive.org and read some old issues of Computer Touching Monthly in color keep in mind that if you ever buy an older refurbished device, security updates won't last as long as you hope they might maybe this won't matter to you though
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mediaphage posted:this reminds me when my spouse was in grad school he and one of his friends went to check out the new iphones and like one of her questions to the apple store dude was how to access the terminal and he just did not know what to do with her 
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lmao that site is still up. looks like he only posts one a year now.
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google kills their pixel pass program that lets you get a new phone every two years after 22 months https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/google-kills-two-year-pixel-pass-subscription-after-just-22-months/
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Endless Mike posted:google kills their pixel pass program that lets you get a new phone every two years after 22 months outstanding move. perfect
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the saddest part is that in two months they'll have a bunch of unwanted $1800 phones to give away
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most people would interpret a promise to keep sending you pixels as a threat
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Endless Mike posted:google kills their pixel pass program that lets you get a new phone every two years after 22 months thoogle
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a new phone every two years is far too infrequently for the kind of people who buy a pixel
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The Management posted:a new phone every two years is far too infrequently for the kind of people who buy a pixel well you gotta have the best for your daily driver
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iMessage Games is Apple’s competitive moat.
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The Management posted:a new phone every two years is far too infrequently for the kind of people who buy a pixel do they still stop supporting hardware after a year?
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akadajet posted:do they still stop supporting hardware after a year? I think once they got their own chips instead of using Qualcomm they started offering a whole three years of support. of course it’s google so lol they’re not actually going to maintain a thing but yeah
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how many google products have existed for three years?
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i like how google continues to sell a discontinued product like its a new one with a lot of support and then oops your brand new product is now out of support
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google doesn’t even make their own phones and the only phone chips they make, as far as I know, are the tensor chips used for ai acceleration
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to be fair, chromebooks when recently released tend to have decent support periods but it really sucks when those same chromebooks are sold as new when they only have a year or less of support left then again, I don’t pay much more than $100 for a chromebook so it’s ok
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sb hermit posted:google doesn’t even make their own phones despite the name, the tensor chips are full phone SoCs made by google, kind of. it’s mostly a Samsung Exynos with some light modification by google.
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sb hermit posted:to be fair, chromebooks when recently released tend to have decent support periods at least they sort of offer unsupported updates by way of flex. though my tinker chromebook had the write screw removed for firmware modification and was wiped for a linux install, so that could have helped the process
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The Management posted:despite the name, the tensor chips are full phone SoCs made by google, kind of. it’s mostly a Samsung Exynos with some light modification by google. yeah, samsung themselves are up to guaranteeing 4 years of updates now, which somewhat likely happened because the pixels force them to do the work anyway. which is genuinely nice, the pace at which people were made insecure and/or stuff turned to ewaste was ridiculous. 4 years from release still isn't a lot (low-end models often for sale for several years), but at least in a slightly more sane realm.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:yeah, samsung themselves are up to guaranteeing 4 years of updates now, which somewhat likely happened because the pixels force them to do the work anyway. i used to upgrade every 2 years because otherwise there was a 0% chance of getting whatever the latest android version was, which usually fixed some major annoyance with the OS. swapped to using my wife's old iPhone XR from 2018 and it runs just fine in tyool 2023, and given that last year they only just discontinued support for the iphone 6, this is still probably going to get 2-4 more years of feature updates even now, nevermind security patches. ios is still annoying in some ways but at least i don't have to upgrade each year to a more expensive phone that's just annoying in slightly different ways each time
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mobby_6kl posted:Also because the iphone is garbage as well. what a fail
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:yeah, samsung themselves are up to guaranteeing 4 years of updates now, which somewhat likely happened because the pixels force them to do the work anyway. I bought a Pixel just to see how it was Returned that piece of poo poo immediately once I saw that Maps feeds you ads right in the search interface, talk about trash
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Last Chance posted:Anroid.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I bought a Pixel just to see how it was buddy, you've posted here long enough to know it was trash before you bought it. you love that poo poo
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it really is incredible that Google feeds ads to maps users in Android but doesn't in iOS. iOS users are much more valuable ad targets, but they've also got another option for maps.
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Pinterest Mom posted:it really is incredible that Google feeds ads to maps users in Android but doesn't in iOS. iOS users are much more valuable ad targets, but they've also got another option for maps. google demanded this in iOS maps, which used the google maps api. so Apple decided to spend several billion dollars to make their own maps instead.
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Last Chance posted:Anroid. dendroid.
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akadajet posted:buddy, you've posted here long enough to know it was trash before you bought it. you love that poo poo You'd expect some kind of improvement in ten years though
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why? it's a google product can you name a google product that has improved in the last decade?
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